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  1. Hugh2
    Yeah, playing above expectations creates a whole new set of problems, better than sucking though. I do think the team thought this would be a bridge year, and they'd have a full season to see if guys like Franchy and Dalbec could put it together. Two guys with middle-of-the-order potential. The reality is, you can only wait so long on this guys, can't get attached and have to move on. I'm not closing the book on them yet, but at some point you got to plug in the hole.
  2. Hugh2
    I think you may be refering to the pipeline rankings which are a week old. Which mine as well be 6 months in draft talk. I think the top ten is pretty much set give or take, it's just the order that we don't know. All these guys we've been hearing about such as Leiter, Rocker, Lawlar, Mayer, House, Davis, Jobe are all going top ten but what order? IDK. Last Mock I saw has Leiter going #4 to Boston and Rocker falling to 11th. But they had Kahlil Watson shooting up to #2. Prior to the highest I saw him was sneaking into the top 10. https://www.prospectslive.com/mlb-draft/2021/5/11/2021-mlb-mock-draft-40-zwtc9
  3. Hugh2
    Minors could help, but maybe not, I think this is just who he is. I believe he's going to be a streaky hitter, he will go on a tear or two and have some better seasons in his prime but he might not have the consistency that is demanded from a first-division team like Boston. With Casas coming up behind him and Devers solidifying 3B I have to believe he's trade bait.
  4. Hugh2
    If you break Dalbecs season down into 2 week chunks he's been relatively consistent at being hot/cold. If he can turn the cold down just a little bit or shorten how long he goes cold for he will be fine.
  5. Hugh2
    There's so many reasons that you never draft for need, and you certainly don't let a prospect in your system block you from drafting a position you feel a guy is BPA at. First of all, these guys take 4-6 years to effectively reach the majors, even top college picks often take 2 years to develop into everyday players. Players bust, get injured, and never pan out, and then a position you thought you were strong at becomes a weakness. The point of a system is to supplement the big league club, and sometimes that is through trades. If you have a surplus of one thing, you can trade it for what you need. If you had the #1 prospect in baseball, and he was a catcher, and you had a crystal ball that told you Davis would become the #2 prospect in baseball you draft him, you draft him all day. If both guys pan out you package one up for a TOTRS.
  6. Hugh2
    At one point, people were advocating for trading away Vasquez because we had this guy called Blake Swihart in our system.
  7. Hugh2
    Dice-K was fine in the back of the rotation, the problem was he was advertised as the next great thing in the majors.
  8. Hugh2
    We might have to throw in 4 bags of baseballs.
  9. Hugh2
    Who even knows if Davis can stick behind the plate. He has a plus plus arm, and will throw out baserunners, but everything else behind the plate looks lackluster. Now, catchers can take time to develop, so I'm not saying you draft him and move him off Catcher immediately, but I think you take him knowing in mind that his bat will play elsewhere. He's the best college hitter in this draft. Personally, I could care less about the plus arm if everything else behind the plate is lagging, Which is why I would prefer one of the shortstops at the top, but I wouldn't be disappointed with Davis.
  10. Hugh2
    He was more like Dice-BB
  11. Hugh2
    Admittedly I'm no an expert but I wonder how much that top tier of talent can really be discounted. The only consensus about this draft is that there is no consensus. There is a pool of 6 guys who are all getting talked about going top 5. I'm wondering if they can work against a team trying to cut a deal. For example, if Leiter slips to #4 his agent can say we could have gone number 1 we want slot. There may be a guy willing to go under, but if a team wants to save millions I wonder if they have to go outside that top 6 to do so. If that's the case, I think I'd be more interested in the Sox taking whoever falls to them, take BPA, maybe they think that's Davis, Leiter, or one of the HS shortstops at the top.
  12. Hugh2
    If he's hitting good in AAA then certainly he can only help the big club.
  13. Hugh2
    Found this little tidbit about the Benintendi trade return interesting. Chris Hatfield @SPChrisHatfield Terrific point by a @SoxProspects Forum poster, cdj: Red Sox Special Assistant, International & Amateur Scouting Chris Becerra was the Mets' director of int'l scouting when they signed Freddy Valdez. Red Sox were scouting Mets' system now, but that perspective likely was helpful.
  14. Hugh2
    https://www.si.com/mlb/2021/06/04/sticky-stuff-is-the-new-steroids-daily-cover Looks like the Sox are some of the largest beneficiaries of increased spin rate. Makes you wonder how many of these guys are junking up their balls, it would certainly explain the pitching staff shattering expectations. If this is true, it could also mean the Sox staff stands to be hurt the most if the crack down on this and it sounds like they will start doing so any day now. Maybe I'm wrong, but if I'm not....makes one want to cash in now.
  15. Hugh2
    Not as high as ours.
  16. Hugh2
    I did some research on this the other day. Gerrit Cole led the majors in innings pitched back in 2019, rewind 20 years Cole would have have ranked 22nd.
  17. Hugh2
    especially the second half. Koji's Whip (without looking it up) was something like .325 in the second half. He walked ONE guy after the all star break, he threw 89 and no one could touch him. I loved the 2013 season.
  18. Hugh2
    Rivera may be the gold standard for closers, he may hold the title of greatest closer of all time for a while, but nobody ever had a season like Koji in 2013. He was absolutely dominant, it was absurd how unhittable and consistent he was.
  19. Hugh2
    Bello just got promoted to Portland
  20. Hugh2
    Whitlock is a very rare case. They're in a situation where they have to keep him on the big league team because he's a rule 5 guy but they also have to be careful with him because he just recently had Tommy John. Right now, I think they care more about him being on a starter's schedule as best as possible. They're not exactly stretching him out but they're usually getting at least an inning plus from him, the one-out appearance was rare yesterday. I'm not sure if they plan on ramping him up later in the year, or if they want to save him for a playoff run where they feel confident in using him out of the pen more. It's a good problem to have because of his talent level, but the downside is it either leaves us a pitcher short in the pen or a bat short on the bench and we've seen that seesaw all year. I really hope Whitlock pans out, develops, and exceeds ALL expecations. I hope he's pitching 200 innings and winning Cy-Youngs and we can go shove that in all the Yankees fans faces. But, we'll probably have to wait a year for that to happen.
  21. Hugh2
    I don't think the plan changed with Whitlock. It's not as if starters sit around for 4 days doing nothing, they do throw. Physiologically there's not harm in throwing a guy out there to steal an out. I have mixed feelings on the issue because you see how good Whitlock could be in the pen and how valuable that could be this year. But, if you think he's a starter, you stick to the plan. At least, that's my opinion.
  22. Hugh2
    Oh it's not a fact, we can never know, that is a permutation that we will never see played out nut I would believe someone if they came from a parallel universe and told me we lose to LA without David Price
  23. Hugh2
    I remember some people making the argument for price getting the world series MVP. He was good in the ALCS and the World series that year. I think it's a fair statement to say David Price was a large part of that world series win and we might not have won it without him.
  24. Hugh2
    So there's a chance for Whitlock.
  25. Hugh2
    Baseball can be a weird game. Sawamura would be mine too. Lets hope the Sox don't screw this up and give the W to someone on the other side of the ball.
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